“ Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us. Tom Perrotta
“ Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical. Tom Perrotta
“ All she knew was that she’d inflicted pain on someone she cared about, and that always cost you something, even if you were just doing your job. It left you feeling dirty and mean, exposed to the laws… Tom Perrotta
“ The chance to leave your old self behind. To take all your mistakes and regrets and erase them from the story. Who wouldn’t want that? Tom Perrotta
“ Nora had been training herself not to think too much about her kids. Not because she wanted to forget them - not at all - but because she wanted to remember them more accurately. For the same reason,… Tom Perrotta
“ It was surprisingly crowded, a bunch of middle-aged people, mostly women, moving enthusiastically, if a bit awkwardly, to Prince’s Little Red Corvette, trying to find a way back to their younger, more… Tom Perrotta
“ I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven. Tom Perrotta
“ She remained unreconciled to the loss of her electric toothbrush. She’d pined for it for weeks before realizing that it was more than the sensation of a clean mouth that she missed—it was her marriage… Tom Perrotta
“ Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not. Tom Perrotta
“ Your poor lungs. We’re not gonna live long enough to get cancer. The Bible says there’s just seven years of Tribulation after the Rapture. Tom Perrotta
“ The thing was to wear a bathing suit and look good in it, to somehow make yourself worthy of the scenario you were volunteering for. Tom Perrotta
“ She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of… Tom Perrotta
“ A girl from his English class who’d overdosed on sleeping pills after learning of the disappearance of her identical twin. Tom Perrotta
